Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 62423

Clean Energy: Local Government

Tabled: 24 June 2025
Answered: 2 July 2025

Question

Sarah Bool

ConservativeSouth Northamptonshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to support (a) South Northamptonshire and (b) other local authorities to improve grid connections for clean energy projects under the Connections Accelerator Service.

Answer

Michael Shanks
Clean energy projects in South Northamptonshire and other local authorities will benefit from ongoing reforms to the grid connection process which will release up to 500GW of capacity from the queue, enabling accelerated connections for schemes that are r...

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